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NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK)

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Mark Zuckerberg and his associates invented a social application which has revolutionized the way our human society interact with others across the globe. In short, Facebook is a gamechanger. My previous article on the advantages of Facebook argued that it affords online socialization for people from different nationalities. I addition, the application has been constantly upgraded to include important functionalities such as audio and video calls, text messaging, creating groups and pages for advertisement etc. Simultaneously, Facebook has also negatively impacted our lives in uncountable ways.   Let's quickly glance through some of the demerits of the social media platform, Facebook. Our privacy have been compromised. Hackers have illegally accessed personal information from millions of users of the application. Confidential information such as phone numbers, email address, gender, race, date of births, political affiliation and more have been have been obtained by

SOCIAL MEDIA-IMPORTANCE OF FACEBOOK

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Social media is a collective terminology that refers to online platforms or applications that serve to connect people across the globe. It offers its patrons the opportunity to actively engage each other in real time using their computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices. Some of the popular social media websites include: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and so forth.  The most widely used social media website is Facebook. Launched in the year 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and other co-founders, Facebook has grown rapidly and amassed billions of subscribers, making it one of the leading giants in the social networking business. In this article, I discuss some benefits we drive from using Facebook. It affords online socialization for people from all parts of the globe. Facebook subscribers can send and receive friend requests from members from different parts of the world. Users can private-message virtually any member who has an account on the Facebook pl

HEARTBREAKING CAUSES OF ARMED ROBBERY

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Verily, the rate of insecurity in our nation is appalling. Day in and day out, unfortunate civilians get shot and robbed by gunmen on our highways, streets and even in the ghettos. Armed robbery has grown to become a bothering issue. While bandits mercilessly cheat and torture hard-working citizens, the police and the army who swore oaths to protect us are sometimes outsmarted by these gangsters. Could it be that our security personnel are not well equipped? Honestly, let’s investigate the causes of armed robbery in the following paragraphs. Unemployment is an instigator of armed robbery. Lack of jobs is the number one ceremony which outdoors a lot of these criminals. Like it’s famously said, ‘the devil finds work for the idle hands’. Armed robbers are illegally self-employed youth who wrote millions of application letters and got rejected.  After trying unsuccessfully to secure white collar jobs, they forcibly lay their hands on illicit and life-threatening blue-collar jobs.